Sega acquires Silicon Knights

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hot on the heels of buying total war developer creative assembly (see our previous coverage), sega has now announced its latest push for “more western-developed content” with the acquisition of development studio silicon knights. the buyout sees sega get yet another triple-a developer under its umbrella, with silicon knights having games such as the critically acclaimed eternal darkness: sanity's requiem and the gamecube remake metal gear solid: twin snakes on its list of releases. sega plans to collaborate with the studio on a new franchise that could make it to any of the next-gen consoles. sega is spending quite a bit of money at the moment, but with good cause. the likes of ea, microsoft, and take-two continue to grow, and sega needs to keep up if it wants to remain one of the top publishers for the next-generation of hardware. these last two acquisitions show that sega knows what it's doing, and we can look forward to quite a few of the most anticipated games for next-gen having a sega logo on the box. thanks to gamesindustry.biz for the heads-up.

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woohoo(9:17am est thu mar 24 2005)i've always been a fan of sega- all the way back to the master system. you know… the one before the genesis? anyway – props to them on staying in there, i hope they make it. good luck, guys! – by krash

love sega(9:59am est thu mar 24 2005)sega rocks! – by beep

sega's going allright(10:36am est thu mar 24 2005)wheen sega dropped the dreamcast and focused only on software, that was there first profitable year in so long. allthough i miss the nintendo vs sega battles, at least we still get there awesome games. – by nearcry

silicon knights = great games(11:42am est thu mar 24 2005)nuff said.. eternal darkness one of the best survival horror games ever.. at least until resident evil 4.. now if they develop on multiple platforms, or at least not a nintendo one, the whole world will see what they can do. – by game fan

wheeee(12:47am est fri mar 25 2005)go sega its your birthday!seriously thats pretty exciting i would love to see eternal darkness on the box i bet it could look real pretty – by saint

uh(7:51am est mon mar 28 2005)i heard that silicon knights and sega only had a partnership and would not be bound with anything that silicon knights did not want to do – by bobo